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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-57889" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-01-15T13:05:41.769Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:59:51.473Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-57889" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-57889.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57889" title: "pinctrl: mcp23s08: Fix sleeping in atomic context due to regmap locking" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npinctrl: mcp23s08: Fix sleeping in atomic context due to regmap locking\n\nIf a device uses MCP23xxx IO expander to receive IRQs, the following\nbug can happen:\n\n BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context\n at kernel/locking/mutex.c:283\n in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, ...\n preempt_count: 1, expected: 0\n ...\n Call Trace:\n ...\n __might_resched+0x104/0x10e\n __might_sleep+0x3e/0x62\n mutex_lock+0x20/0x4c\n regmap_lock_mutex+0x10/0x18\n regmap_update_bits_base+0x2c/0x66\n mcp23s08_irq_set_type+0x1ae/0x1d6\n __irq_set_trigger+0x56/0x172\n __setup_irq+0x1e6/0x646\n request_threaded_irq+0xb6/0x160\n ...\n\nWe observed the problem while experimenting with a touchscreen driver which\nused MCP23017 IO expander (I2C).\n\nThe regmap in the pinctrl-mcp23s08 driver uses a mutex for protection from\nconcurrent accesses, which is the default for regmaps without .fast_io,\n.disable_locking, etc.\n\nmcp23s08_irq_set_type() calls regmap_update_bits_base(), and the latter\nlocks the mutex.\n\nHowever, __setup_irq() locks desc-\u003elock spinlock before calling these\nfunctions. As a result, the system tries to lock the mutex whole holding\nthe spinlock.\n\nIt seems, the internal regmap locks are not needed in this driver at all.\nmcp-\u003elock seems to protect the regmap from concurrent accesses already,\nexcept, probably, in mcp_pinconf_get/set.\n\nmcp23s08_irq_set_type() and mcp23s08_irq_mask/unmask() are called under\nchip_bus_lock(), which calls mcp23s08_irq_bus_lock(). The latter takes\nmcp-\u003elock and enables regmap caching, so that the potentially slow I2C\naccesses are deferred until chip_bus_unlock().\n\nThe accesses to the regmap from mcp23s08_probe_one() do not need additional\nlocking.\n\nIn all remaining places where the regmap is accessed, except\nmcp_pinconf_get/set(), the driver already takes mcp-\u003elock.\n\nThis patch adds locking in mcp_pinconf_get/set() and disables internal\nlocking in the regmap config. Among other things, it fixes the sleeping\nin atomic context described above." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8f38910ba4f662222157ce07a0d5becc4328c46a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"788d9e9a41b81893d6bb8faa05f045c975278318"},{"version":"8f38910ba4f662222157ce07a0d5becc4328c46a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c55d186376a87b468c9ee30f2195e0f3857f61a0"},{"version":"8f38910ba4f662222157ce07a0d5becc4328c46a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9372e160d8211a7e17f2abff8370794f182df785"},{"version":"8f38910ba4f662222157ce07a0d5becc4328c46a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0310cbad163a908d09d99c26827859365cd71fcb"},{"version":"8f38910ba4f662222157ce07a0d5becc4328c46a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c6fd5803b988a5e78c9b9e42c70a936d7cfc6ec"},{"version":"8f38910ba4f662222157ce07a0d5becc4328c46a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"830f838589522404cd7c2f0f540602f25034af61"},{"version":"8f38910ba4f662222157ce07a0d5becc4328c46a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a37eecb705f33726f1fb7cd2a67e514a15dfe693"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"version":"5.4.289","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.233","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.124","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.70","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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